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On Markus Becker's website, under Concerts, he has listed:

12-16 Feb 2018
Piano Concertos of Pfitzner and Braunfels
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin conducted by Constantin Trinks
To be released on Hyperion.

This is interesting as Dutton released the Braunfels concerto not long ago, and the Pfitzner has received a number of good recordings already.

Thoughts?

cheers,
Daniel

From Simon Callaghan's website: "I am very pleased to announce that my recording of concertos by Bernhard Scholz and Josef Rheinberger will be released as Volume 76 of Hyperion's Romantic Piano Concerto Series on June 29th 2018. More information here...

cheers,
Daniel

Ah - there's a little story behind the Ouverture portugaise. This extract from the preface to my edition, published in 2016 (www.crescendomusicpubs.com.au):

"The first International Exposition to be held in Porto, Portugal, opened in September 1865, when Widor was 21 years old. The renowned English organ-builder J.W. Walker had provided an organ for the large Porto Concert Hall and asked Cavaillé-Coll to recommend a capable organist who would be prepared to stay there for 'four or five months'. Widor happily accepted the invitation. His performances, partly improvised, were apparently well received and he was given a knighthood by the Portuguese monarch, Luiz I (1838—89). At age 91 (1935), Widor wrote in his remembrances: 'My sojourn in Porto brought me another artistic benefit—that of hearing my music performed by an orchestra for the first time. For the end of the exposition, they asked me to compose a grand overture for orchestra and organ. I wrote a very plain work, according to my ability. Even though it was well received, I did justice to it some years later by destroying it.'"

He may well have destroyed his copy, but thankfully the Biblioteca da Ajuda holds a copy of the full score that was bestowed on the king. More detailed information is given in the preface, but that's the short version of the story.

cheers,
Daniel

Other projects possibly in the pipeline include Volume 4 in their series of Widor's works for orchestra. Recording date and ensemble are TBC, but repertoire may include the incidental music from Conte d'Avril Op. 64, Suite from la Korrigane Op. 45, Ouverture portugaise [Op. 0].

cheers,
Daniel

Volume 72 is Cipriani Potter's Piano Concertos Nos 2 and 4 - http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA68151

From the Cover displayed on the youtube video this is clearly Vol. 73.

Wonder who's vol. 72 after the 71 Czerny.

Hi Everyone,
I thought the board might be interested in a project my co-editor and I have been working on for the last year or so. Since completing our edition of Widor's complete works for piano (and trying not to lose hope that someone might be brave enough to record them!) in 2014, we have turned our attention to Widor's forgotten orchestral works. The four we have edited and published so far are his Ouverture portugaise (prepared from the only known source, in the Biblioteca da Ajuda, Portugal), effectively his Op. 0. Scored for organ concertante, orchestra and wind ensemble, this effective single-movement work points towards greater things to come.

Also recently released is his Ouverture espagnole, a jaunty work, the only extant movement from a five-movement Suite pittoresque. From his stage works we have issued a new edition of his Conte d'Avril, Op. 64 - incidental music for a comedie-en-verse by Auguste Dorchain. Our edition includes revisions made by Widor post-publication and on the whole, it is exceedingly well-written. Also available is the charming suite from his ballet La Korrigane Op. 45a, which by 1896 had clocked up over 100 performances at the Paris Opéra.

Those interested can view sample pages from the scores via http://www.crescendomusicpubs.com.au

There are plans afoot for a recording with one of the BBC orchestras, as part of Dutton's ongoing series covering Widor's orchestral works, later this year. Exciting times!

cheers,
Daniel Mitterdorfer

In the interests of answering questions raised, Widor's Symphonie No. 1 is available on disc for the first time: http://www.duttonvocalion.co.uk/proddetail.php?prod=CDLX7315
Cheers,
Daniel

Can anyone provide information on a commercially available recording of Widor's First Symphony for orchestra? I am unaware of the existence of one.

cheers,
Daniel

I've only just found out about Dutton's Volume 2, and have ordered it immediately, having spent the last 4 or so years editing and reissuing scores of Widor's complete (extant) piano works. The musical quality of the majority of it is good to excellent, and deserves to be more widely known. Only a few have been recorded to date, so maybe one day someone might be interested in recording a Widor piano intégrale; one can only hope!

cheers,
Daniel